Refereed Publications

Olaru, A., Gutarra S., Racicot, R.A., Dunn, F.A., Rahman, I.A., Wang, Z., Darroch, S.A.F., and Gibson, B.M. 2024. Functional morphology of the Ediacaran organisms Tribrachidium heraldicum. Paleobiology, doi:10.1017/pab.2024.24.

Gutarra, Susana, Emily G. Mitchell, Frances S. Dunn, Brandt M. Gibson, Rachel A. Racicot, Simon A.F. Darroch, and Imran A. Rahman. 2024. Ediacaran marine forests and the ventilation of the oceans. Current Biology 34: 2528-2534.E3, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.059.

Spiering, Bianca R., Ajani Bissick, Simon A.F. Darroch, Joshua H.F.L Davies, Brandt M. Gibson, Galen P. Halverson, Marc Laflamme, and Frederik J. Hilgen. 2024. Initial cyclostratigraphy of the middle Nama Group (Schwarzrand Subgroup) in southern Namibia. Precambrian Research 397: 107200.

Gibson, Brandt M., Max Chipman, Paolo Attanasio, Zaid Qureshi, Simon A.F. Darroch, Imran A. Rahman, and Marc Laflamme. 2023. Reconstructing the feeding ecology of the Cambrian sponge reefs: the case for active suspension feeding in Archaeocyatha. Royal Society Open Science 10, 230766, doi: 10.1098/rsos230766.

Gibson, Brandt M., James D. Schiffbauer, Adam F. Wallace, and Simon A.F. Darroch. 2023. The role of iron in the formation of Ediacaran ‘death masks’. Geobiology. doi: 10.1111/gbi.12551.

Darroch, Simon A.F., Susana Gutarra-Diaz, Hale Masaki, Andrei Olaru, Brandt M. Gibson, Frances S. Dunn, Emily G. Mitchell, Rachel A. Racicot, and Imran A. Rahman. 2023. Pectinifrons abyssalis, rangeomorphs, and hydrodynamic function at the dawn of animal life. iScience 26, 105989, doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.105989.

Darroch, Simon A.F., Brandt M. Gibson, Maggie Syversson, Imran A. Rahman, Rachel A. Racicot, Frances S. Dunn, Susana Gutarra-Diaz, Eberhard Schindler, Achim Wehrmann, and Marc Laflamme. 2022. The life and times of Pteridinium simplex. Paleobiology 48, 527-556, doi: 10.1017/pab.2022.2.

Gibson, Brandt M., Simon A.F. Darroch, Katie A. Maloney, and Marc Lalfamme. 2021. The importance of size and location within gregarious populations of Ernietta plateauensis. Frontiers in Earth Science 9, 749150, doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.749150.

Darroch, Simon A.F., Alison T. Cribb, Luis A. Buatois, Gerard J.B. Germs, Charlotte G. Kenchington, Emily F. Smith, Helke Mocke, Gretchen R. O'Neil, James D. Schiffbauer, Katie M. Maloney, Rachel A. Racicot, Katherine A. Turk, Brandt M. Gibson, John Almond, Bryce Koester, Tom H. Boag, Sarah M. Tweedt, and Marc Laflamme. 2021. The trace fossil record of the Nama Group, Namibia: Exploring the terminal Ediacaran roots of the Cambrian explosion. Earth-Science Reviews, 212, 103435, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103435.

Gibson, Brandt M., David J. Furbish, Imran A. Rahman, Mark W. Schmeeckle, Marc Laflamme, and Simon A.F. Darroch. 2021. Ancient life and moving fluids. Biological Reviews, 96, 129-152, doi: 10.1111/brv.12649.

Maloney, Katie M., Thomas H. Boag, Amanda J. Facciol, Brandt M. Gibson, Alison Cribb, Bryce E. Koester, Charlotte G. Kenchington, Rachel A. Racicot, Simon A.F. Darroch, and Marc Laflamme. 2020. Paleoenvironmental analysis of Ernietta-bearing Ediacaran deposits in southern Namibia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 556, 109884, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109884.

Barnes, Matthew, Claire L. McLeod, Caleb Chappell, Olivia Faraci, Brandt Gibson, and Mark P.S. Krekeler. 2020. Characterizing the geogenic background of the Midwest: a detailed mineralogical and geochemical investigation of a glacial till in southwestern Ohio. Environmental Earth Sciences 79, 159, doi: 10.1007/s12665-020-8890-z.

Cribb, Alison T., Charlotte G. Kenchington, Bryce Koester, Brandt M. Gibson, Thomas H. Boag, Rachel A. Racicot, Helke Mocke, Marc Laflamme, and Simon A.F. Darroch. 2019. Increase in metazoan ecosystem engineering prior to the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary in the Nama Group, Namibia. Royal Society Open Science 6, 190548, doi: 10.1098/rsos.190548.

Lang, Nicholas P., Susanne M. McDowell, Cole A. Nypaver, Brandt M. Gibson, Briana Li-Vidal, Calvin F. Miller, Lily L. Claiborne, Autumn Helfrich, Joseph McCosby, Eli Schwat, Ian P. Thompson, Blake Wallrich, Michelle Foley, Sarah McGuinness, and Carlos Gomez. 2019. Unraveling volcanic and related processes using remotely sensed data sets: perspectives from a Miocene-aged volcanic terrain in Northwest Arizona. Geologic Excursions in Southwestern North America v. 55: 273-306.

Gilbert, P.U.P.A., Susannah M. Porter, Chang-Yu Sun, Shuhai Xiao, Brandt M. Gibson, Noa Shenkar, and Andrew H. Knoll. 2019. Crystallization by particle attachment in early biomineralizing animals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences v. 116: 17659-17665. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1902273116.

Gibson, Brandt M., Imran A. Rahman, Katie M. Maloney, Rachel R. Racicot, Helke Mocke, Marc Laflamme, and Simon A.F. Darroch. 2019. Gregarious suspension feeding in a modular Ediacaran organism. Science Advances, v. 5: eaaw0260, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw0260.

Gibson, Brandt M., James D. Schiffbauer, and Simon A.F. Darroch. 2018. Ediacaran-style decay experiments using mollusks and sea anemones. PALAIOS, v.33: 185-203. doi: 10.2110/palo.2017.091

Darroch, Simon A.F., Imran Rahman, Brandt Gibson, Rachel Racicot, and Marc Laflamme. 2017. Inference of facultative mobility in the enigmatic Ediacaran organism Parvancorina. Biology Letters, v. 13: 20170033. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0033.

Non-refereed Publications

Laflamme, Marc, Simon A.F. Darroch, Katie Maloney, and Brandt M. Gibson. 2018. Sedimentology and Paleontology of the oldest Ediacaran communities of Newfoundland (Premeeting Field Trip 2; International Sedimentology Congress 2018; Quebec, Canada).